Those displaced by Sandy find unexpected benefits bunking with friends and family

11:27 PM,
Nov. 9, 2012

Suffern's Giba Dateario took in 11 family members during Super Storm Sandy.

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When Ashley Curtis lost power in Nyack early in Superstorm Sandy, she did the sensible thing: she and her husband and toddler daughter headed for her in-laws' house in Suffern.

"They were great; they lost power, too, but for only about a day," Curtis says. "They have a four-bedroom house and put up an extended family network displaced from Princeton, Jersey City, Nyack and a cousin, who was flying home to India, who got delayed."

This family of five took in 11 relatives, including four kids. "It was a crowded and chaotic adventure," Curtis says. ...